10 May
2001
10 May
'01
3:12 p.m.
On Thu, 10 May 2001, John Fraizer wrote:
Anyone know any good articles on 10GB ethernet? I am specifically intrested if they have removed some of the legacy requirements that hamper gigabit ethernet (such as a default MTU of 1500, half-duplex, etc.)
Half-duplex? The last time I checked, my GigE equipment didn't default to half-duplex.
No I wouldn't expect it to, nor did I state anything about defaulting to half. There is no purpose for half-duplex in GIGE, even the few GIGE hubs I've seen are buffered and user congestion control to allow full duplex operation. The possibility of half-duplex mode just adds unneeded cruft and additional failure modes.